How many clubs do your primary aged children do?

[MilkyStars24]

Or anything extra curricular? And how old were they when they started?

DD (year 1) does 2 - is that about normal?

9 yo currently does Electronic Music after school, plus Cubs.

4 year olds do Squirrels.

Eldest used to do more - drama,dance, gymnastics etc but it was a lot for his physically due to medical needs.

No weekend activities as it impinges too much on life.

If any of them asked to do more, we'd try and fit it in but I don't drive so it involves all of us gadding back and forth on buses regardless of who's activity

My 8yo just does cubs and swimming at the moment, and goes to tennis in the summer. Am keen for him to add another sport or instrument but he isnt jumping at the chance so I won’t push it- but it is on my mind. I think because he’s at wraparound 3 nights a week too until 6 (which could be at least partially replaced by clubs) it’s important to build in rest days. All kids need some time to decompress too.

Dd has just started year 1 and she does:
Swimming lessons (I'm not sure I consider this an extra curricular, as I see it more as an essential but I suppose technically it is)
Rainbows
And then a couple of after school clubs run by the school - a sports one and a dance one. These are free.

Y3 (age 7)
Rugby one weekday evening
Karate another evening
Swimming Saturday morning
Rugby match most Sunday mornings*

In addition he also stays at school until 4.10pm twice a week. School have a schedule of free activities for 30 minutes and he's always keen to go. He does choir/drama club regularly on one day and the second option changes each half term. So far there's been tennis, cookery club, gardening club, french club, football and athletics.

*when the rugby season has ended he does an 8 week cricket camp on Sunday mornings June-August. The timings tie in nicely.

year 2 does 5 activities - swimming, musical instrument, beavers, tennis and football. I would quite like for him to get good at most of them and do see it as him building up his hobbies for the future. Ds favorite one is beavers. I would like him to try something else but thats already quite a lot as he's in after school club three times a week on top of these.

At that age I guess mine were doing about 3/4 things a week. Brownies, swimming, piano lesson, football/choir. All things they had chosen and enjoyed. Still had plenty of chill time and rarely seemed out of energy!

Y1 son, just swimming after school on the day I don't work. I'm thinking about trying some sports clubs on Saturday mornings but he likes a chill morning pottering at home so I'm not pushing it yet.

I don't understand how working parents get their children to so many clubs. We pick up from the childminder at 5.45pm - clubs tend to start either after school or 5pm, when I'm working.

I think he'd love Beavers but there's are no weekend groups around here. Best I could do is finish work early, pick up from the childminder early and take him and then make up an hour after work. But I already do condensed hours so that seems impossible.

I have two kids, they do two each...that's plenty. The rest of the time they are playing and fighting eachother! If they were only children I can see the benefit of them doing more but they have eachother and toys so I don't think it's needed. Plus it would be a stretch to afford more both financially and my energy wise!

For us, the piano and the choir both happened in school. My parents took mine to swimming for us on one of the days I worked. Football was a weekend thing. I only really had to do the brownies and I was lucky to finish work earlier than you do!

We 'only' two. This is already more than what we did as kids ourselves. To be honest, I'm not convinced that they are that useful. I'm a big fan of chilling and doing nothing.

Mine probably did about two at that age so sounds about right .

now aged 9 ds 2 does loads- football (x2 plus matches), karate, flute lessons, cubs, a couple of after school clubs. Quite difficult from a parent taxi pov if I’m honest

ds1 otoh (11) just does scouts and piano. The latter he is quite reluctant tbh but I’m a pushy musical parent.

almost all things round here are 6 or 7pm or sat mornings so doable for working parents
I don’t finish work until 5.30 so couldn’t do stuff earlier

Far too many at the moment! My 5 year old does gymnastics, swimming, rainbows and ballet. Ditching ballet at the end of this year though.

My 3 year old does ballet and swimming.

9yo DS, Year 5

Maths
Cubs
Swimming
Kickboxing
Tennis

Nothing at weekends

We do probably too many but the kids really need more exercise than school has. We do tennis, athletics, violin, swimming (until they can actually swim) and gymnastics. Swimming is the killer as it's so limited on time options and most of the available classes are late. Anything else would be dropped but swimming is non- negotiable...

My dd as a child was a live wire with boundless energy and we started her on ballet just before her third birthday to see if it would help to tire her out. It didn't! She then started a tots gym thing which she enjoyed, and then we added swimming in when she was about 5. Brownies came a bit later on, as did tap and modern dance. Then she added musical theatre and dropped Brownies, more dance classes - by about ten she was doing 3 or 4 hours of ballet classes a week since she seemed to like that one the most. She was doing something nearly every day after school, but appeared to thrive on it. No idea where she got the energy from, as I'm a prize-winning couch potato!

I'm not sure many kids would want to do that much, they are all different. And I was basically working to pay for it all.

My Y1 DS does Rugby, Football, Fencing and Piano as in-school/after-school clubs and we take him to Swimming, Athletics and Beavers separately.
We are also considering adding Musical Theater.

Ds does scouts and basketball

DD does basketball

It's enough

Last year my P7 sports mad DD did

Scouts
Football x 3
Basketball
Netball
Swimming
Curling

This year she's now in S1 doing

Scouts
Football x 6 (3 at school)
Swimming
Curling
Table tennis
Fitness

Love this. My daughter does ballet on Friday and a swimming lesson on Saturday morning. Plenty enough.

Most of my DS's activities happen at school, so we just pick him up later. Then we take him to 1 activity during the weekend and 1 that starts at 6,30pm on a weekday. The third activity he goes to starts at 5pm on Friday, but it's close to home and we don't have to stay so one of us manages the drop off and carries on working from home.
We are considering adding another weekend activity that we know he would like and would be a nice addition to his weekends.

Mine did multi sports at school, fun choir out of school and swim lessons at that age. Dropped swimming and sports in favour of being choristers, both played piano and did another instrument too, but that's more than just a club. One makes her living from music

My son is in year 6

he does after school football on a Thu

he plays for a team that train once a week autumn/winter and twice a week in summer

matches every sun

we used to do swimming but that stopped in year 5

its definitely enough and wouldn't want to take on anymore.

How on earth do you all fit so many clubs in with family life!?

Taking and picking up multiple children to multiple clubs, plus homework, dinner, bath, a good amount of sleep for them - on top of parents working full time? I'd be so overwhelmed. Maybe I'm just not organised enough, but I only have 1 toddler plus currently pregnant so not that that stage yet anyway.

Dc1 age 9 yr5. Dc2 yr 3. Both do a school club Monday straight after school. Swimming once a week.

Previously did cubs and beavers but those combined with working left us very little weeknight time. They wanted to give up so that's what we did. I'm a single parent and was finding it too much.